outright
Example Sentences
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Sunday's preliminary results show it fell three seats short of an outright majority, with 43.8% of the vote.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
County either win outright in the June primary or move on to the general election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
But that breakthrough represented the first effort in a long career spent exposing exploitative working conditions for women other journalists diminished or outright dismissed.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
The idea of rejecting the technology outright is unrealistic, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“I heard that from Lonnie last year. Like, the kid outright said it or something.”
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
